1. During your observations, in what ways have you noted teachers using new literacies? Have you found these approaches to be effective or ineffective? What factors do you believe need to be put into place in order for these new literacies to become effective?
2. What are your experiences with new literacies (as referenced by Vacca & Vacca). Are your experiences positive or negative? How might these negative experiences been altered so as to provide a positive learning experience?
Monday, April 27, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Dr. Ries and reading-writing connection
There are two quotes in Chapter 9 that I would like you to think about and to which I would like you to respond. Be prepared to discuss these quotes in today's class. Those quotes are:
1. "Sometimes reading and writing are taught in classrooms as if they bear little relationship to each other. The result has often been to sever the powerful bonds for meaning-making that exist between reading and writing."
2. "Writing activates learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading."
Can you think of writing assignment that, from you own experience, enhanced meaning-making? Be prepared to list those assignments and discuss them in class.
1. "Sometimes reading and writing are taught in classrooms as if they bear little relationship to each other. The result has often been to sever the powerful bonds for meaning-making that exist between reading and writing."
2. "Writing activates learning by helping students to explore, clarify, and think deeply about the ideas and concepts they encounter in reading."
Can you think of writing assignment that, from you own experience, enhanced meaning-making? Be prepared to list those assignments and discuss them in class.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Dr. Ries poses a question on assessment
1. What is your understanding of high-stakes v. authentic assessment?
2. List a few ways in which you have been assessed by your high school teachers. What was your reaction (both positive and negative) to this form of assessment?
3. Have you ever been asked by a teacher to assess yourselves? How did you feel about that approach to assessment?
(You may choose one of these questions to answer).
2. List a few ways in which you have been assessed by your high school teachers. What was your reaction (both positive and negative) to this form of assessment?
3. Have you ever been asked by a teacher to assess yourselves? How did you feel about that approach to assessment?
(You may choose one of these questions to answer).
Monday, April 6, 2015
Dr. Ries has a question about trade books
Share with us some memories that you may have of trade books that teachers read aloud to you and your fellow students. What did you learn about a particular person, event or subject through the trade book read aloud?
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